Ushering out strlcpy()

To be honest, I think you lost me, especially since initially I understood that it had to be handled as an array of bytes and not a string, but that sort of comforts me in the idea that it can quickly become very complicated to write simple yet efficient functions for a number of low-level use cases. And my fear with languages that are complicated to use is that either the developer will introduce logic bugs when trying to hack around constraints, or that they will give up and fall back to the default, much less efficient solution (which is often what we see in practice).